BODY SNATCHING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3784, 13 April 1891, Page 3

BODY SNATCHING.

Torn From tbe Grave

An extraordinary case has lately come under our notice. It appears that Mr H. A. Crane, who travels over this and the adjacent colonies in the interests of one. of the largest importing firms in this city, and therefore is a well-known man all over thewoloniea, has lately been in very indifferent health. He had suffered from a severe shaking at the Windsor Kailway Smash, and had been under tha treatment., of the best physicians in Melbourne and Sydney. The moat troublesome ..symptom was Neuralgia, which was ' excruciatingly painful; he had been a sufferer from this complaint on and off for years, but since the accident yhe had suffered ten times worse than ever. Be consulted physician afteri.? phyindan without benefit; they tofdhim «^ong«t.them, he had every complaint from atrophy of the to disease. His case wremarkable that we give his . ..own yersion of- it in his own, words, cwnsidering that he has a miraculoiiff from acute suffering, if liot fromarivuntimely grave. He says the laßieeven years 1 have been: a victitn tci the moat excruci sting agony/ from neuralgia, and also suffered from" extreme nervousness. I tried hundreds of so-called specifics, but without avail, and, being a commercial traveller, am particularly liable to cold fronl exposure to draughts, &c,; a alight one even al»ays fled to my facial nerves, and caused acute neuralgic pains, preventing sleep, and causing excessive sympathetic headache. I saw CLEMENTS'" TONIC advertised, procured a bottle, and in two days the pain was T completely cured, a con summation I" had^'never expected, and am deeply thankful for same. This was four months ago, and from then till now I have never had the slightest twinge of the excruciating torture 1 U3ed to have. You may make what U3e of this you like. Yours gracefully, HENBY A. CKANE. We also received similar letters from T. Garrett, Esq., M .P.. who says "He found Clements' Tonic a great aid to appetite and digestion," and from Mrs Whalley, who w»s quite worn out, tired, weak and unable to move. She took seven battles of Clements' Tonic, and now can eat, work, and sleep, and is stronger than ever before. Wa could go on like this with evidence that proves the value of Clements' Tonic in acute diseases right down the colnnin, and then for yards over the edge of the paper, so inexhaustive is our supply of influential and positive endorsement. "We will send full particulars of the ; diseases Clements' Tonic ia suitable for on receipt of your name and, address. F. M Newtown Sydney.

An Heroic Girl, News recently reached Florida from Hayti (says The Times) of a remarkable story of heroism on the part of a girl of eighteea years, the daughter of a sea captain, who navigated her father's ship when he and all the crew were down with yellow fever. The barque James H. Hamlin, a coasting vessel, bound from South American ports to Savannah, was last spoken at sea on December loth off Navassa, when all hands were reported ill with yellow fever, and no attempt was made by the vessel which reported her to give any assistance. It appears that Captain Annis, the master of the Hamlin, fell ill with the fever early in December, when the mate took command. He, too, fell ill, and one aftar another they came down until not a person was left to navigate the ship. The captain had with him on board his only daughter, Miss Maud Anms, aged 18 years, who appears to have been the last to catch the fever. With the aid of one or two sailors who managed to crawl to the deck, she navigated the vessel for several hundreds of miles, and succeeded in reaching port with a crew dead and dying, and Captain Annis in a critical condition. From December 15th, when the Hamlin was spoken off Navassa, nothing was heard of her until the steamship Alvo arrived at Aux Cayes, Hayti, with Captain Annis, his daughter, and all the crew except two men who had died. The Captain died the day after reaching Aux Cayes, and Miss Annis is dangerousiy ill and delirious. She is being nursed at the house of the British Consul. The remainder cf the crew are recovering. This Man wa3 FrightenedA r.d on reading the facts it will appear that he had reason to be. The man referred to was Edward Perrin, a miard on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Kail way. In September, 1887, he met with an accident, which gave a temporary shock to his system. Not long afterwards ho began to feel a pain in the chest and have difficulty in breathing, and threw up a great deal of mocus (phlegm). He at once concluded he had some serious ailment of the lungs, and soupht medicil advice. The doctor Baid it was so, and aided that there was no cure for it, and that he could no more than give him something to ease the pain and the cough. Then the doctor gave Mr Perrin a certificate stating that he was suffering from " Catarrh Phthsis," which is the professional term for that dreadful malady, Consumption, further symptoms soon appeared which seemed to cunfirm this alarming opinion The poor fellow experienced great pain in eating and a tightness across the chest, which ielt, lie said, "as if some strong arm was gripping him arouud the body under the arms.'^

The rest of Mr Perrin's narrative is be s related iii his own words. He says : " I soon commenced to have a brackish taste in the mouth as if I had been sucking copper. Then cr mo cold chills and sweats in turn, the cough got hollow, and I raised more than I had" done. These terrible symptoms so scared me that I went and consulted a doctor. He examined me carefully, and certified as follows,—

In the rase of Guard Perrin, This man is evidently frightened.' He is suffering from Phthisis and Dyspepsia. Cod liver oil and iron are indicated.

''This fully bore out what the other doctor had said so I now looked upon myself as done for. I took eyerything I could here tell of. I have drunk gallons j of cod liver dilaiid sherry, and have had many quarts of camphorated oil rubbed on my chest until my wife was sick of rubbing. 1 was also poulticed continu • ally, but in spite'of all this terrific dosing and medicating 1 got gradually worse; In halt a dozen words my condition was this: I believed myselt to be fast going to the grave with consumption; my friends said so, the doctors said bo, and it looked like it if anything ever did. It is understood that consumption is sure death, and 1 made up my mind for that awfal end. I had been off my work from 1887 to 1888. I was ashamed to be away 0 much, as I was obliged to draw funds arom the Club all the time to help support my family. While I was thus doing nothing but waiting to die, craw ling about feeblylike a man who has virtually do ne witht'nis world, I Happened one day to meet one of the Traffic Inspectors of eur liue. He was shocked at my looks, but said, I don't know ai anything will help you ; but, if anything does, it is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.' I remember that this idea assured me, miserably broken and ill as I was. Help ine? Gould it cure consumption? Not likely. Impossible ! Still it couldn't make me worse, so 1 got a bottle and began to take it. I could scarcely credit my my feelingc, but as sure as troth is truth, before 1 had used up that bottle cf medicine, 1 found relief. Sow comes what you may find it hard to believe—l took two more bottles and went back to work, and. have been sound and healthy eyer since. 1 told the doctoi about it, and although he saw I was well, he seemed displeased, •'You say Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cured you ?' he said. 'Nonsense. It is only a quack medicine ; it is nothing but stuff and rubbish.' Well, all right, 1 said to myself, it may be stuff and rubbish, but it has made a sound man of nie after that very doctor had me booked for the graveyard, and said no eaithly power could keep me out of n. That was enough for me, and will be : enough for thousands of others in this country. •' 1 am exposed to all sorts of weather but have never had a return of the bad breathing, chest pains, nor any of the other symptoms that nearly frightened me out of my senses. I eat and enjoy my food as well as any man in England. Now, what was the secret of this getting well ? If I really had consumption, it was nothing short of a miracle ; but I never had consumption at all. The doctors were all wrong in calling it that. What T actually suffered frcm was indigestion and dypepsia, which causes the same symptoms gthat mark true consumption; hence lets of people who are supposed to haye lung complaint might be as easily cured as I was if they would let cod liver oil alone and take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup." Mr Perrin's address is—No. 36, Gorton Brook Street, Gorton Brook, Manchester, England, and he will reply to any letters written to him concerning his case.